ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ARCHAEOLOGY

It is a characterizing teaching for the Master’s Degree Ancient Civilisations: Literature, History and Archaeology, for the archaeological curriculum; it aims to furnish to students methodological tools to investigate cultural and socio-economic development in Italia before of Roman domination.
It will be analyzed relationships with etrusco-italic, Mediterranean and European cultures; we pay attention to the chronological items and to material culture.
Our main focus is to improove ability to make chronological references for archaeological evidence of etruscan art and civilisation.
Single item will be selected and specifically oriented, in flipped classroom mode too.

1. Knowledge and understanding
- To know basic archaeological and technical terminology
- To Know development of settlements and cities in Venetic area
- To Know main theoretical models to analize urban societies
- To know main features of local material culture
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- To be able to employ archaeological and technical terminology
- To be able to apply theoretical models for the development of Venetic culture and landscape
- To be able to analyze settlements and cities
- To be able to analyze examples of material culture and artistic finds
3. Judgment skills
- To be able to judge and argue hypothesis about venetic contexts
4. Communication skills
- To be able to tell new finds or results of the research with a plain and technical terminology
- To be able to compare themselves with colleagues and tutor, even on.line
5. Learning ability
- To be able to take notes and to share them with colleagues, even on line
- To be able to consult bibliographic references even with a critical point of view

It would be better to have attended at least the main course in Etruscology and Italic Archaeology, e.g. the first module. However, the basics will be recoverable in itinere. It is, anyway, essential that students have a good knowledge of Italian and European physical and morphological geography.

The course aims to examine the cultural phenomenon of the Orientalizing in the Etruscan world in relation also to the formation of cities and the socio-political evolution towards a princely and oligarchic organisation. The aim is to highlight the main assumptions that led to the evolution of relevant cultural aspects such as the emergence of monumental architecture and statuary, the evolution of urban centres and the acquisition of writing.

General bibliography:
LIVERANI M. 2000, Potere e regalità nei regni del vicino Oriente, in Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa, Catalogo della mostra, Venezia, pp. 3-13.
GRAS M. 2000, Il Mediterraneo in età Orientalizzante: merci, approdi, circolazione, in Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa, Catalogo della mostra, Venezia, pp. 15-25.
D’AGOSTINO B. 2000, La cultura Orientalizzante in Grecia e nell’Egeo, in Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa, Catalogo della mostra, Venezia, pp. 43-53.
COLONNA G. 2000, La cultura Orientalizzante in Etruria, in Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa, Catalogo della mostra, Venezia, pp. 55-65.
TORELLI M. 2000, Le regiae etrusche e laziali tra Orientalizzante e Arcaismo, in Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa, Catalogo della mostra, Venezia, pp. 67-77.
TORELLI M. 2014 (o altre edizioni), L’arte degli Etruschi, Bari, pp. 17-74.
NASO A. 2012, Gli influssi del Vicino Oriente sull’Etruria nell’VIII-VII sec. a.C.: un bilancio, in
BELLELLI V., Le origini degli Etruschi. Storia Archeologia Antropologia, Roma 2012, pp. 433-453.
TORELLI M. 2014 (o altre edizioni), L’arte degli Etruschi, Bari, pp. 17-74.
[Torelli M. 1981 (qualsiasi successiva edizione), Storia degli Etruschi, Bari, capitoli 3 e 4.]

For specific topics:
S. BOURDIN, O. DALLY, A. NASO, CH. SMITH 2021, The orientalizing cultures in the Mediterranean, 8th-6th Century B.C. Origins, cultural contacts and local develpoments: tha case of Italy, Mediterranea Supplementi n.s. 1, 2021, Roma.
In particolare i contributi:
C. PELLEGRINO, L’”orientalizzante” come processo storico: il caso della Campania, pp. 253 ss.
M. SANNIBALE, L’Etruria e il Mediterraneo visti dalla tomba Regolini -Galassi, pp. 185 ss.
A. ZIFFERERO, M. MILLETTI, E. ROSSI, Le necropoli di Marsiliana d’Albegna: architettura, rituale funerario e cultura materiale, pp. 107 ss.
P. VON ELES, Villanoviano e Orientalizzante a Verucchio, pp. 93 ss.
S. SANTOCCHINI GERG, L’orientalizzante nel Bolognese, pp. 63 ss.

The test is oral; the student have to show a good knowledge of the main subjects and that they are able to explain the topics in a formally correct language, making use also of proper archaeological terminology. The students are expected to recognise the main funerary contexts treated or traceable in images from the bibliography and their chronological and cultural framework.

oral

Assessment will be based on the level of knowledge and understanding of the contexts and artefacts presented in the lecture and available in the assigned bibliography; the ability to identify the elements and define their chronology; the ability to rework the information contained in the archaeological contexts analysed and to relate it to specific socio-cultural frameworks; and the level of personal and critical reworking.
More specifically:
it is considered sufficient (18-22/30) the test in which the student is able to identify at least half of the images submitted for examination; frame the subjects, describe the structural features and characteristics of the material and imported culture with even generic chronological references.
The test is considered good (22-26/30) if the student is able to identify more than half of the images submitted for examination, indicate their cultural context, identify the places and productions and hypothesise a chronology;
The test is considered very good (27-30/30) if the student is able to identify all the images submitted for examination, frame them chronologically and culturally and provide a critical reading of the contexts within the framework of pre-Roman Italy and Etruria in its territorial variations.
The test is considered excellent (30/30 cum laude) if the student is able to identify all the images submitted for examination, frame them culturally and chronologically and provide a personal and critical re-elaboration of the significance of individual objects or contexts in the development of Etruscan civilisation and pre-Roman Italy with a view to a historical and social reconstruction.

Face to face lessons
Lectures and exercises
On.line papers for specific topics.
Flipped classroom

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development